“Boss of the Lazy B”
by L. Ron Hubbard
Publication date: September 1938
Original publication: Western Story Magazine
Genre: Western
Story description: Against sound advice, a headstrong young woman saves a smooth talking con man from a lynching, only to have him rob a bank and kidnap her brother.
Currently available as part of the Stories from the Golden Age series, in the title Death Waits at Sundown.